Rob Ruttan

Hello. I'm a High School Philosophy, English, and sometimes Special Education teacher living in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. I became interested in photography in my twenties and after leaving it for a couple of decades, started picking up cameras again around 2006. I shoot both digital and film images, occasionally with a 1930s Zeiss Super Ikonta that my father bought in England during WW 2. I still have the bill for it, along with letters he wrote home about the hunt for a camera and the discovery of the Zeiss in a shop on Bond Street. Although slightly damaged in a fall a few years ago, it is mechanically and optically sound. I use some old Minoltas inherited from a very talented Uncle, and an old Hasselblad, purchased with the proceeds of my Mother's estate. When using this equipment, I am very aware of the debts I owe these people.
I don't claim to have any profound aesthetic vision. However, I am mindful that a photograph, from the moment the shutter clicks, is a message from the past, and I am concerned with the loss of the past, especially of the deep, poetic, mythic roots we have in the land.
A portion (10%) of all my profits will be donated to the City of Barrie Youth Ambassadors program to help economically disa...

B.A., Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario
M.A., Philosophy, Queen's University
B.Ed., The University of Western Ontario
Various knocks, scrapes, blessings & friendships.

Bohemia Cafe, Barrie, Ontario...but I can't remember when...it might have been April of 2010.